Results – 36 dBA
Last time we took a look at an interesting all-in-one cooler from Valkyrie and today we’ll loosely follow up on that theme with a review of the Vind SL125 air cooler, which is the only air cooler model Valkyrie has in its lineup so far. The Vind SL125 air cooler combines a single dense fin bundle with a pair of mirrored fans. So I’m curious to see how this interesting combination performs in our stress tests.
Results – 36 dBA
In this category you will no longer find load test results at 210 W. The reason is the impossibility of achieving such low noise at very high load with any cooler I have had the opportunity to test, even with the best 360mm AIOs. Instead, I am collecting data at 45 and 48 dBA levels and I intend to include them in our tests starting next year.
However, the results at 125W load understandably remain, and if no value is listed for the cooler, it means that it could not be adjusted to such a low noise level.
And as has become a good habit here, if a single tower cooler has two fans, I’ll run a second set of tests without the rear fan. In the charts, these tests are marked with the “(single fan)” attribute.
- Contents
- Key features
- Measurement methodology
- Results – 36 dBA
- Results – 39 dBA
- Results – 42 dBA
- Results – maximum speed
- Spectral analysis of noise
- Conclusion and evaluation
